GRAND RAPIDS – The family of Tami Ann Lindemulder, the 18-year-old Aquinas College student who died in a September crash after leaving a party in Allendale Township, remains devastated by her loss, her sister said Tuesday night.

“Tami left an imprint on the lives of everyone who knew her,” sister Sarah Buzzell said in an email to The Press.

“Her family and friends love her and miss her regardless of the circumstances that lead to her death.”

In announcing misdemeanor charges against six people linked to the party, Ottawa County sheriff's Sgt. Steve Austin said that toxicology tests showed Lindemulder's blood-alcohol was was .30-percent. The state's definition of intoxication is .08-percent.

Austin said police investigated Lindemulder's whereabouts before she crashed her 2003 Mitsubishi Montero on Fillmore Street east of 36th Avenue in Georgetown Township early on Sept. 17. Police learned she had been at a party at an Allendale Township apartment.

Lindemulder's family never sought to blame anyone for the loss, her sister said. They have been too consumed with grief.

“We were never concerned about who is to blame and WE are not pressing any charges. The authorities are doing an investigation based on their own protocol,” she wrote.